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Show WILD AHIMAL3 v nroS la Captttllr Doxlop Feroelty la Spile of lralntot. There Is a eurrent tradition that wild animals born In captivity do not attain the savageness of those bred In tbelr native Jungle, and that the teeth of aueh animals do not develop aa they do In the wild state Mr Alexander Day, assistant superintendent out at the loo, whose experience with wild animals ani-mals haa been almost lifelong, says that he has not found those assertions to be true. However Innocent and apparently ap-parently tame the cubs may appear, he says, there la a time when they attain savagenesa apparently from Instinct and show all the characteristics of the animals whose home has alwsys been the forest or the plain. As for the development de-velopment of teeth. Mr Way points for Illustration to full-grown lions which were born and reved In captlvlt and may be sun any day cracking bones of meat with which they are fed 'with every evldenco ot possessing the most sound teeth possible The only way In which wild animals In captivity usually usu-ally suffer with their teeth Is that when they nre fed they may grab at the meat which la pushed through the bars with a big Iron fork and break a tooth on the fork, or they may In Jumping against the bars Injure a tooth and suffer afterward from lta loss. The little lions, when baby cubs, ars shy st first; then become as playful play-ful as kittens, For the first year ot their life usually they may be treated as domestic animals. At tho sge ot about twelve weeks the cube aro taken from their mother, but In the meantime mean-time ahe haa taught them to rat meat At first tho cubs suck a bono or a scrap or raw meat which tho mother tears off for them. Often they may be scan gnawing upon a bone which the mother moth-er lion holds In her Jawa and paws. When first taken from their mother the cubs are given finely chopped meat, the pieces being gradually made larger until they aro given bones, upon which they sharpen and deviop their teeth. In tlmo tho lions can crush tho bonos with case. From 12 to It months of age tho young lions nre, It Is said, so cross as to be almost unmanageable. At the ago of IS months or two years the cubs nre taken In bind by tho trainer and then, having reached thslr grov.th, they nro ready to be perfected In their tricks nnd to bo exhibited. It Is aald by those familiar with Hon taming and training that lions which liava been brought up as pits are tho hardest to train tor performers. Tbey do not seem to tako tho training seriously, seri-ously, and nre not so easily mastored as thoso which havo grown to maturity without petting. IJalllmore Sun. |